An Essex Girl on the Costa Blanca by Jo Black.
An Essex Girl on the Costa Blanca by Jo Black. "Call her a bitch, slut, whore but never tell a woman she's fat, especially an Essex girl!" The book was written to help raise money for Emaus children and a percentage of sales of this book will go to this charity. Imagine it's May 2005 and Michael is squeezed into a shoe-box sized toilet counting £50,000 in notes from a Tesco carrier bag. Talk about privacy. Jo Black had had her hairdressing salon for 10 years and had decided to sell without informing her staff officially. This money represented half of the payment up front and the remainder was to be paid that same afternoon once the contracts were signed. There had been two tax investigations so you can understand the need for caution and secrecy from the Inland Revenue. £100,000 was smuggled out of the country as the family set off on their adventure to Spain to live the dream. Sounds a bit corny nowadays...